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An important part of Alberta's oilsands air monitoring has been cancelled due to funding problems. In a letter to the province's pollution monitoring agency, the group responsible for air-quality testing says its mobile unit is 'no longer operable.'

The federal government has been trying to hide legitimate concerns about the consequences of oilsands pipelines by keeping under wraps a report on the possible environmental threats such projects pose, critics say.

A vote Tuesday in the European Parliament could reject a compromise draft bill and revive tough fuel quality directive labelling that would target unconventional crude, specifically Alberta's oilsands.

Nanotechnology similar to that used to kill tumours in cancer patients could be adapted to improve in situ oil recovery in Alberta's oilsands, says international researcher Stanley Bryant, who was introduced as the latest Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Calgary.